The previews of the route on TV suggest it's been done to limit Froome's advantage, not many summit finishes, record low levels of time trials and a complete mixed bag, hopefully to encourage new, attacking tactics, as it's not clear where any time gaps will be found so everyone will be trying to find them everywhere, I guess we'll see.

Team Sky have a bit of a dilemma if their team keeps the time gaps it currently has, 12 seconds might prove a valuable lead so they may have to try to keep both riders at the front for as long as possible, especially with the other TT on the penultimate day.

How about having two threads, one with spoilers for people watching live, so we can mention anything, one for people watching highlights, so things can only be mentioned once the ITV highlights have shown it? Is there a later highlights show? Anyone watching on catch-up would have to avoid til they'd caught up, but it would avoid this awkward silence.

Postboxer wrote:The previews of the route on TV suggest it's been done to limit Froome's advantage, not many summit finishes, record low levels of time trials and a complete mixed bag, hopefully to encourage new, attacking tactics, as it's not clear where any time gaps will be found so everyone will be trying to find them everywhere, I guess we'll see.

Team Sky have a bit of a dilemma if their team keeps the time gaps it currently has, 12 seconds might prove a valuable lead so they may have to try to keep both riders at the front for as long as possible, especially with the other TT on the penultimate day.

How about having two threads, one with spoilers for people watching live, so we can mention anything, one for people watching highlights, so things can only be mentioned once the ITV highlights have shown it? Is there a later highlights show? Anyone watching on catch-up would have to avoid til they'd caught up, but it would avoid this awkward silence.

Only the 8th Brit to wear yellow, I struggled to name an 8th.

The second Welsh rider to wear the jersey, after Cadel Evans

Do the organisers really try to make the stages suitable for certain riders? One imagines commercial considerations come first, and the towns that want to pay a lot of money to host the stages have to be joined up somehow

I think there should always be a TTT and a long individual time trial, maybe 100 miles

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Sky had the jersey passed as OK before racing in it, though the regulation:-

International Cycling Union (UCI) regulations state that garments must not be adapted in any way beyond their use purely as clothing. The addition of any non-essential element or device to clothing is prohibited.

Kind of suggests it shouldn't have been, as the bobbles don't appear to be an essential element.